topic Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ? in Operating System - Linux

Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

Yaboto — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:51:01 GMT

Hi,

Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

In case it doesn't, what would be the solution for it to support ?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Mawuena

Re: Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

Modris Bremze — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:53:29 GMT

32bit (x86) RHEL 5 supports 32 logical CPUs, 64bit (x86_64) supports up to 255 logical CPUs. So it depends on what kind of CPUs you have.

Re: Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

Yaboto — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:42:28 GMT

Thanks very much for your reply.

What about the Licensing, please ?

I have about 10 quantities of RHEL 2 sockets Licenses for about 10 individual servers that I haven't used yet. Right now, I have a very big servers of 8 physical processors.

Can I use or combine my existing licences for my new big server ?

Please HELP !

Mawuena

Re: Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

Modris Bremze — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:14:01 GMT

Yes, different licenses have different limits. You will probably have to confirm anything regarding licensing specifics with RedHat anyway, so maybe just go ahead and ask them. They should be the most competent source for this kind of information.

Re: Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

Yaboto — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:32:47 GMT

I have been downloading, installing and using Red Hat Linux freely, even in a production and LIVE environment.

If I don't buy and apply the required Licences, what would I be missing ?

Please educate me on the consequences !

Best regards,

Mawuena

Re: Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

Alzhy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:01:07 GMT

You need to have Advanced Platform if you want to use RHEL on greater than 2 CPUs or SOCKETS regardless of how many CPU cores each CPU/socket have.

As far as limits -- well Linux technically can support OOTB up to 4096 CPUs so 8 Sockets is a rather small box comparatively.

We have been running RHEL 5.X on an IBM 3950 M2 16 Socket Machine.

Re: Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support 8 Physical Processors / 8 Sockets ?

Alzhy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:17:44 GMT

If you do not have a license - and using it in production -- you are not technically violating any terms of use. You simply won't be able to have support or patch your system "properly".

How have you been patching your systems though? Do you download patches separately for your licensed instance and apply them on your unlicensed instances? If so -- I think that would be violative of your licensing an you should cease that practice.

You would be better off running CenTOS instead which is bit for bit -- the same as RHEL plus you have the ability to patch "properly".